Anti Pop Consortium (US)

Saturday Sep. 18 – Folken at 22:00

Formed in the fall 1997, united under the credo “disturb the equilibrium.” The Anti-Pop Consortium came together as a divergent force to resist the evil empire Hip Hop was slowly becoming. Three vocalist (Priest, Beans and M.Sayyid) and the aural alchemy of E.Blaize converged as a matter of happenstance at the downtown off-shoot of the Nuyorican Theatre entitled “Rap meets Poetry” hosted by poetry slam stalwart Bob Hollman.
At it’s beginning the “Consortium” was series of cassette only releases on the then fledgling Anti-Pop Recordings. After circulating the cassettes among divergent taste-makers of the NYC underground the 4-man crew became known as the Anti-Pop Consortium.

These tripped-out beat-makers supreme Anti Pop Consortium will be joining Grandmaster Flash this night. They are one of the most unique and progressive hip-hop outfits in the world they’ve found the perfect mix of smooth rhymes, group wordplays and psychedelic bass-lines which they use to entertain the crowds at their shows in a distinctly APC manner. Classic tracks such as ‘Ping Pong’ blend seemlessly in to newer joints like ‘Volcano’, all tied together with some properly brilliant avant-garde beat jams and accompanied by the ever smiling faces of four blokes LOVING what they do! Its infectious stuff.